I find that some of my best work has been produced when I have been melancholic. When I am happy I am not so inclined to make art. It is a brutal world we live in and many things are […]
Trials and Tribulations of working on a large scale. The next painting I am leading up to will be 120 x 160 cms. The ratio of dimensions and the scale for this painting are very important. I can fit the […]
Spiderman meets Rosie and Jim! What an alarming scenario. Video tapes knotted to create a turret in a happy day in the studio followed by a couple of hours research in the library. Began Peter Osborne’s book, Anywhere or Not […]
Tilted heads… When I had a break from blogging I had just mentioned I had started a curved neck portrait (Head Tilted I). I have since worked on this and started another painting from the same series of photographs. I […]
Provost statement Since the concerns of Jason Haye were raised with the Provost, a number of discussions have taken place between the Provost, Jason, the UCS Union and the Department involved. We are all in agreement that the most important […]
Richard Lister Provost and Chief Executive University Campus Suffolk Waterfront Building Neptune Quay Ipswich, IP4 1QJ 02 May 2014 Dear Richard Having met with one your students, Jason Haye, on 1 May 2014, I felt it important to write this […]
Flax sowing at Tuppenny Barn Since hearing that I didn’t get my Arts Council funding I’ve not been sitting around moping. I’ve been very busy working on my project, especially starting to get my plots ready and sowing my crops. […]
“I went from being an artist who makes things, to being an artist who makes things happen.” – Jeremy Deller. “What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGqAggmwyMU&hd=1 The above link takes you to the Tate short film about the restoration of the Rothko painting, one of the paintings from the Seagram Murals series, which was damaged with graphiti ink over a year ago. I have books […]
Make first – Think Later. This post is necessarily retrospective in that the work forming the subject, was made some time ago. And it wasn’t Art, rather, just a couple of bits of hoarded tat that I had an urge […]
Got somewhat overtaken by bringing the margins into my local village halls. Took the discussions with Trevor Pitt and Zoe Shearman to heart and steered the ship, no bus, accordingly. What a spectacular package evolved in a day. http://flamingskirtfestival.tumblr.com These […]
Monologue of a Trapped Bee. My canvas is here! I’ve already started to prime it! While I was doing this I looked up and saw (and heard) a bee trapped inside the window. I had a thought watching him that […]
Lately I have been working on more photos which include water as I feel these are the most effective. I really love the links between my work and the character Ophelia in Hamlet. Although I am happy with the outcome […]
-> continued from above There is something so vulnerable in this though, and important. The best I can do is press on as carefully as possible, with his help. It’s not an exercise in separation, rather the opposite. Looking this […]
American Beauty is a 1999 American Drama Film. The film stars Kevin Spacey who plays an office worker who becomes infatuated with his teenaged daughters best friend. The film has been described by academics as a satire of American Middle […]
While some of my blogger friends accompany their art across borders and oceans I often feel like I’m turning round and round in the dip a blunt needle made on a map (and yes, my mien is somewhat green). From […]
These images are the first ones that I have taken with my new camera to make sure they would blow up with little problem. I really wanted to portray a colourful, beautiful fresh feel within the images. I picked the […]
Mathematic and Dynamic Sublime I wanted to try my best to quantify my observations about space. As it turns out I couldn’t find too many theories/ Ideas on the subject. Katharina Grosse makes some good points during and interview but […]
“I didn’t want the best players, I wanted the best team” Today I was thinking of the process of choosing suitable subjects for portraits. It isn’t always easy, not everybody has a face for it. Choosing people to paint for […]
43 artists are in the running to win the inaugural East London Painting Prize.
Irish artist Richard Mosse has been awarded the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014 for his haunting yet seductive work on the wartorn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Paying Artists Campaign is attracting comment across the visual arts as Arts Council England chair Peter Bazalgette tweets his support and others offer practical help and advice.
